Replace selection with a new zettel containing the selection

[MartyLake]

Hello,
I have some simple "foo" idea, so I create a new zettel and write about it. After some writing, it occurs to me that some later paragraph deserve its own "bar" zettel. Because writing is incremental, I do not know before hands that I should write the paragraph to the "bar" zettel already.

Actual

Right now, what I do is

1. select lines about "bar" in "foo" zettel
2. delete
3. create new zettel for "bar"
4. paste
5. go back to "foo" buffer
6. insert zettel link to "bar"

Expected / wish

I wish that I could do something like

1. select lines about "bar" in "foo" zettel
2. call dedicated function: in "foo", the selection is deleted and replaced by a link to "bar", a new zettel that is created in a split or tab (configurable?) containing already the text that was selected

Thanks in advance,
Best

[MartyLake]

I found a function (undocumented ZettelNewSelectedMap) that almost does this !

I modified it and got

function! ZettelCaptureSelected(title)
  let selection = zettel#vimwiki#get_visual_selection()
  let title = a:title
  let name = zettel#vimwiki#new_zettel_name(title)
  " prepare_template_variables needs the file saved on disk
  execute "write"
  " make variables that will be available in the new page template
  let variables = zettel#vimwiki#prepare_template_variables(expand("%"), title)
  let linktitle = "\\\\0"
  if match(vimwiki#path#current_wiki_file(), zettel#vimwiki#path()) != 0
    " if we are NOT in the zettelkasten, we should use absolute (vimwiki
    " root-relative absolute) paths for the name
    let idx = a:0 ? a:1 : vimwiki#vars#get_bufferlocal('wiki_nr')
    let prefix =  zettel#vimwiki#get_option('rel_path', idx)
    let name = "/" . prefix . name
    let linktitle = prefix . linktitle
  endif
  " replace the visually selected text with a link to the new zettel
  " \\%V.*\\%V. should select the whole visual selection
  execute "normal! :'<,'>s:\\%V.*\\%V.:" . zettel#vimwiki#format_link( name, linktitle) ."\<cr>\<C-o>"
  call zettel#vimwiki#zettel_new(title, variables)
  " paste selection at end of file
  execute "normal! Go" . selection
endfunction

EDIT: the original post had some typo. I found it and now it works 🎉 so I corrected the post.

[michal-h21]

I am doing it in this way:

1. select lines about foo
2. delete
3. write a title for the new note
4. select the title
5. press z, which calls ZettelNewSelectedMap and creates a new note with the selected title
6. paste the deleted content

[MartyLake]

Well, now you have a function that does it at once !

I think ZettelNewSelectedMap deserves its own help section, maybe something like #159